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| Jean Paul Richter
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him. Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. |
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